Yang, Charles X.: The Genealogy and Crisis of Anthropocentrism

Abstract This paper employs the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology (LYGC) as its critical framework to conduct a systematic, philosophicaly rigorous analysis of the core propositions advanced by six Eastern and Western thinkers — Descartes, Wang Yangming, Kant, Zhang Zai, Marx, and Mao Zedong — revealing their shared deep structure: anthropocentrism (Anthropocentrism). The central argument is that this philosophical genealogy unfolds through three successive levels of logical progression: the epistemolo